Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reported on a new Barnes & Noble television commercial created by B&N chairman Leonard Riggio, starring Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.… Read more »

The outrage over “manspreading”—a new word submission that the Collins Dictionary defines as “a male passenger in a bus or train splaying his legs and denying space to the passenger… Read more »

Of all the ads that have offended my sensibilities (I’m looking at you, Carl’s Jr.), I don’t remember many of them being banned, and I certainly don’t remember any of… Read more »

Self-styled ‘forward thinkers’ love e-books. They love them. They want to marry them. They want to have grotesque half-digital babies with them and grow old with them and be buried… Read more »

Sixteen years after Fred Astaire dueted with a Dirt Devil, and ten years after Jack Kerouac sold khakis for the GAP, it seems advertisers have finally perfected the art of… Read more »

Three students from the Miami Ad School—Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez—have come up with a new way to entice readers to visit their local libraries. These students designed… Read more »

Remember when William S. Burroughs was featured in a Nike commercial? Neither do I, but fortunately for us the internet does. Here it is, in all its confounding beauty. Or maybe… Read more »

If your website is part of an affiliate program and you potentially earn money by linking to books — either on Amazon or Indiebound or others — are you ethically… Read more »

Below is an ad that displayed on the Huffington Post earlier this week. Ignore the top and focus on the bottom portion, that reads “Teachers HATE Him!!” Have a close… Read more »

Amazon released its latest slate of Kindles last week, and while the new products featured a handful of very nice features—including an 8.8mm thick bell and a hot new 4G… Read more »